It’s certainly been an exciting week for Star Wars fans and it all kicked off with the awesome first trailer for the upcoming stand-alone film Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The trailer offered a first look at many of our favorite characters in action and now, thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we have some new and incredibly detailed images from the upcoming film.

Check out the images in the gallery below:

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Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo and Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca

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Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo

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Donald Glover is Lando Calrissian

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Emilia Clarke is Qi’ra and Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo

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Pictured: Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo and Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca

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Joonas Suotamo is Chewbacca, Woody Harrelson is Beckett and Alden Ehrenreich is Han Solo

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The Millenium Falcon

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Pictured: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is L3-37

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Mudtroopers on Mimban

Solo: A Star Wars Story, which will take place several years prior to the era explored in A New Hope, is described by the studio as follows:

“Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.”

The film is directed by Ron Howard and stars Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson and Paul Bettany.

Solo: A Star Wars Story soars into theaters on May 25, 2018.

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